How many baby Hairy-tailed moles are in a litter?
A Hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 35 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Talpidae family (genus: Parascalops). An adult Hairy-tailed mole grows up to a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The hairy-tailed mole (Parascalops breweri), also known as Brewer’s mole, is a medium-sized North American mole. It is the only member of the genus Parascalops. The species epithet breweri refers to Thomas Mayo Brewer, an American naturalist.
Other animals of the family Talpidae
Hairy-tailed mole is a member of the Talpidae, as are these animals:
- Townsend’s mole with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese shrew mole weighting only 16 grams
- Pyrenean desman with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese shrew mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Blind mole weighting only 70 grams
- Kloss’s mole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese mole with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hairy-tailed mole
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Colorado chipmunk
- Dice’s cottontail
- Sody’s tree rat
- African grass rat
- Plateau pika
- Culpeo
- Madras treeshrew
- Nectomys squamipes
- Akodon azarae
- Transcaucasian mole vole
Animals that get as old as a Hairy-tailed mole
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Derby’s woolly opossum with 5 years
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 5 years
- Brown four-eyed opossum with 4 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Northern birch mouse with 4 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-tailed mole
What other animals weight around 51 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Uinta chipmunk weighting 51 grams
- Swamp antechinus weighting 53 grams
- Whitehead’s spiny rat weighting 57 grams
- Large fruit-eating bat weighting 61 grams
- Highland brush mouse weighting 54 grams
- Handleyomys fuscatus weighting 49 grams
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat weighting 49 grams
- Oryzomys gorgasi weighting 60 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum weighting 46 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-tailed mole
Also reaching around 12.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Glacier rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coast mole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s rousette gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fly River water rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Masked white-tailed rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giant kangaroo rat gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)